Cover for hay-ricks



(No Medal.)

' J. W. HUTGHISON.

COVER FOR HAY RISKS.

Pedtented Feb. 1, 1887.

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COVER FOR HAY-RICKES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,838, dated February 1, 1887.

Application filed June 28, 1586.

the same.

I am aware that sectional as well as continuous flexible caps for hay-ricks have been made heretofore, and that wood and textile fabrics have been used in constructing them. I therefore do not claim, broadly, such a cover as my invention, but ooufi me myself to the improved mode of construction by which my cover is rendered portable and easy to handle, and at the same time secure and applicable, without modification, to all lhe purposes of roof-shelter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my cup in use. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of my invention. Figs. 3 and 4 are details of the same.

My cap is made up in sections, so that it may be easy to handle and capable of extension or contraction, asmay be desired, to cover a larger or smaller expanse.

In the drawings I have designated the several sections by the letter A, and it will be understood that they are intended to be duplicates of each other, though that is not essen tial, They should be made and used in pairs, however, so that the two sections which are coupled to each other on the ridge shall be of the same width. Each section A is made preferably from ordinary tougued and grooved flooring-boards nailed to transverse cleats b, and along one edge it is provided with a battenstrip, e, which, when thesections arein use, lap and cover the joints between. The sect-ions for one side only differ from the sections for the other side in this: The sections for one side are all provided on their under sides and about eight inches from one end with two or more clips or staples, g, and the corresponding sections on the opposite side are provided with hooks which project upward from the extremity of the section, so that the staples of the opposite section may be engaged with said hooks while both sections are resting on the stack, it being only necessary to slide the star Serinl No. 206,525). (No lilfltitL pie-section upward a short distance above its final position, which I prefer to make like the hooks h,though they may be fixed to the section, as at i. Iprefer the hooks h, because with them their engagement with their staples 9 may be effected while the outer ends of the sections are raised up out of position by the irregularity of the surface of the stack, and will therefore adapt themselves to the slant of the top of the rick. By placing the staples g on the under side at a little distance from the upper end of section A there is formed a projecting ridge to prevent rain from entering the top of the rick. Each section is also pro vided with a hook, is, on one edge, and a sta ple, m, on the other, and these serve to attach the adjoining sections to each other. Each section, at the end opposite the hook h or staple g, is provided with a bracket or hook, p.

I prefer a simple hook, as shown, although a bracket or shelf of any kind may be employed capable of holding stones or other rough weights of any kind. The object is to attach a weight of some kind to load the lower or free end, so that the capwill not be lifted or blown off by high winds. A sufficiently heavy pole, q, of wood, is at once most convenient and most effective, because it also serves to bind the sections together as well as to weight them,

and the hooks 1) not only support but they inclose the pole and render accidental displacement difiicnlt. By putting the hooksp on the outside of the cover and at a suitable distance from the lower end the weight retained by them will bear upon the whole area of thesection.

I am aware that caps have been made projecting beyond the rick at their lower ends, and that weights have been suspended from the under sides thereof; but that is not my invention, because said weights pull down the lower edge only of the cap, while my weight is superincumbent as to the whole area of the section.

The length and width of the section maybe as preferred, but should be restricted to dimensions which will render them easy to handie.

1n putting the cap upon a rick commencement is made at one end, and the two sections of one pair are coupled by staples g and hooks 71. The neXt succeeding pair is then put in positionvinthe same way, and connected with the first"pai r" bythe hooks and staples k m, and so on until the whole rick is covered.

5 Poles or weights may then be put on,as described. The added weight of the poles q, or other heavy body, exerts a-constant pressure upon the rick, which has an effect to settle and compact the upper part.

[0 When the hay is to be used, it may be un covered a little at a time by the removal of the sections one by one.

Having described any invention, I clain1 1. A cap or cover composed of sections A,

the section on oneside being provided with f staples g,'inserted'iii the'under side six inches, orthereaboutffrom theend, and the sections -"""'o'n the other side provided with hooks proeo'jecting at'righ t anglesarid even with the end 2. A cap or cover composed of sections A A, arranged in pairs to beattached at their ends, and the sections on one side provided with staples projecting at right angles from: the under side, and the sections on the other side provided with hooks projecting at right angles from the upper side even with the up per end, and each section provided with hooks and staples near the edges for marginal attachment, and the brackets or hookspon the outside to receive and retain snperincunihent some convenient anchoring-weight to hold the sections withouttouching the hay and without slings of any kind. I 5 arranged in pairs to be attached at their ends,

3. A sectional cap or cover, AA, flexibly joined at the ridge and provided withhooks or brackets p, ada'pted to receive and retain a convenientsuperincumbent anchorage-weight on the outside,combined with a.pole,q, to constitute a continuous anchoring-weight superincumbent upon the cover-sections to coincidently presst-he hay and hold the sections iniplace.

J OHN NVILLIAM HUTOHISON.

Witnesses:

J. T. J AMIsoN, W. O. ROCKWELL, 

